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Acquisition activity within the insurance sector has led to many business’ legal entity structures become increasingly complex. The result of which is leading to an increase in cost and inefficiency across multiple regulatory rules, relationships and returns.

On 23 July 2018, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published in draft the ‘Registration of Overseas Entities Bill’, setting out provisions to establish a new beneficial ownership register of overseas entities that own UK property.

The European Union’s integrated VAT system is designed to minimise the requirements for businesses to register for VAT in more than one member state. Even so, there are circumstances when registration in another EU country may still be required. Do you know what those are?

Recent news of profit warnings, redundancies and store closures for the UK’s major department store chains provides clear evidence that times have changed. Is the end of the department store as we know it? Will any of the major chains survive? And what makes one chain more likely to survive than another?

The world of retail is changing. The $500 billion global cosmetic industry is not just following this trend, but it’s at the forefront of this change, particularly with some of the new entrants such as Kylie Jenner.

The department store was once the king of the high street. 2018 has seen profit warnings, redundancies and store closures for the UK’s other major department store chains, so how fearful should stores be for the future?